MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Virtual Can*Con
April 20, 2024
In Person Can*Con
November 1 to 3, 2024
Sheraton, Ottawa
THIS WEEKEND ONLY – Both events for the price of 1! Get your ticket(s) NOW!
There was just too much cool.
Honestly, it was a problem. Every year, trying to contain all of it in one spectacular weekend was starting to be cosmologically dangerous. Everyone is just doing too much amazing stuff and one event could not, would not, contain it all. Wanting to preserve the sanctity of our universe, we decided to split Can*Con into TWO events.
Two Can*Cons!
An amazing virtual event in the spring, followed by a glittery in person event in the fall. We’ll get the chance to spotlight more Canadian talent and amazing creators from around the world, and you’ll get to meet even more talented writers, publishers, editors, agents…and more!
Virtual Can*Con will take place over a single day packed with a solid track filled with new and familiar faces discussing really cool stuff to help you level up and inspire you.
In person Can*Con will be another three days brimming with workshops, panels, parties, and more glitter than can be safely deployed in one packed weekend.
THIS WEEKEND ONLY! You can get a ticket for just 85$ for BOTH EVENTS! That’s like paying for in person Can*Con and getting virtual Can*Con for free (saving you $45)! It’s our best deal ever, so run to get your ticket now! This deal ends Sunday evening. If you’re at Can*Con, head to the registration desk to buy your tickets and save the Eventbee fees!
Still on the fence? Keep on reading to meet our confirmed guests…and we’ll have more surprises and announcements over the next few months!
See you (twice!) in 2024!
Author Guest of Honour (In Person)
Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally. Their fiction has been published in over seven different languages. Their most recent novel, Just Like Home, and most recent original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Know Your Station are available now. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com.
Author Guest of Honour (In Person)
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He has written four fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His breakthrough novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. The sequel, Moon of the Turning Leaves, was published in October 2023. He graduated from the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2002, and spent most of his journalism career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a video journalist and radio host. He left CBC in 2020 to focus on his literary career. He lives in Sudbury, Ontario with his wife and three sons.
Editor Guest of Honour (In Person)
Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her BattleTech tie-in novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, won a Scribe Award. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars
Editor Guest of Honour (In Person)
Diana M. Pho is a queer Vietnamese-American independent scholar, playwright, and Hugo Award-winning fiction editor. She has over a decade of experience in traditional, Big Five publishing, including Tor Books, Tor.com Publishing, and the Science Fiction Book Club. Presently, she is now Executive Editor at Erewhon Books, acquiring and editing genre-bending and game-changing fiction. Find out more at https://dianampho.com/
Agent Guest of Honour (In Person)
Arley Sorg is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a two-time Locus Award Finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is also a SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, and a finalist for two Ignyte Awards. Arley is senior editor at Locus, associate editor at both Lightspeed & Nightmare, a columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and an interviewer for Clarkesworld. He is a guest critiquer for the current Odyssey Workshop, and is the week five instructor for this year’s Clarion West, among other teaching and speaking engagements. Find him at arleysorg.com, his Twitter, or Facebook.
Author Guest of Honour (Virtual)
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist, and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, available from Interstellar Flight Press, is the winner of the 2022 Elgin Award.
Special Guest (Virtual)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, editor & publisher in Nigeria. He has won the Nebula, Otherwise, Locus, British & World Fantasy awards and been a finalist in the Hugo, Sturgeon, British Science Fiction and NAACP Image awards. His works have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Uncanny Magazine, Tordotcom, and others. He was a guest of honour at the Afrofuturism themed ICFA 44 where he coined the term/genre Afropantheology. His collection on the subject, Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology is now out on pre-order. And you can read more about it on Publishers Weekly, where it has a starred review. He also has an interview on Publishers Weekly where he talks about Afropantheology.
Special Guest (Virtual)
Diane L. Walton has served more than twenty years as Managing Editor of the long-running Canadian journal of the Fantastic, On Spec. Her own publishing background is sketchy, with short fiction in Northern Frights, Divine Realms, On Spec, and a long-ago CBC radio program called Alberta Anthology. She much prefers the fun of discovering new-to-her writers of short fiction, and bringing these works to a wider audience. Now retired from the day job, Diane can spend her time managing On Spec, singing with two local women’s choir groups and happily puttering in the house in Nova Scotia that she shares with her husband, Rick, and their cat, Calypso.
